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Well, today while I was enabling scrolling on my trackpoint I painted myself in the corner. As I had earlier disabled the trackpad, when I enabled scrolling I enabled it somehow as scrolling only. As a result all I can do is scroll! I can't move the pointer at all.

When I closed the lid, and the locked computer screen came up, I was able to move the pointer, but as soon as the desktop opened again, I'm frozen in place.

Do I need to go into safe mode? If so, what is the command and instructions for doing so?

Frozen in space and time.

Thanks,

taichi

I got into safe mode, and into the control panel with an unfrozen cursor, but was unable to open the mouse settings tab. Nothing happens when I click on it.

I had read that Fn 8 will bring up pointer options, but that does nothing.

taichi

Is the touchpad disabled in the BIOS or in the Windows mouse settings?

If in the BIOS, enable it temporarily, navigate using it to the trackpoint settings and change them.

Otherwise you can use keyboard only to go to the mouse settings and change whatever needs to be changed.

If somehow keyboard only is difficult, you can probably connect an external mouse temporarily.

Thanks for the reply.

I disabled it in Mouse settings yesterday so my hand wouldn't brush against it.

The annoying thing is that once in safe mode, both trackpoint and touchpad work, but neither of them is capable of opening the mouse tab in control panel>personalize>mouse settings. Clicking on mouse settings opens no window.

How can I control the cursor using the keyboard in normal mode?

I'll try going to BIOS and see if trackpad is somehow disabled there.

thanks a lot,

taichi

Try attaching a usb mouse. When the system boots, Windows should install the driver for the usb mouse and you should be able to get to the mouse settings to reset the trackpoint/touchpad.

I had thought of that, but can you believe I have no usb mice? That is until your comment spurred me on to call a friend and ask if he had a usb mouse for his macbook. This triggered my awareness that the G4 Powermac we have does have a USB mouse...and I'm back to normal!'

So thanks very much for your stimulus!

There's nothing like the trackpoint, but the T60P touchpad is nice too.

taichi